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John Scalzi
Meslek Roman ve hikaye yazarı, film eleştirmeni
Tür Bilim kurgu
İlk eseri Old Man’s War (roman)
John Michael Scalzi II (d. 10 Mayıs 1969), Amerikalı roman ve hikaye yazarı. Yedi adet basılmış romanı ve çeşitli dergilerde ve antolojilerde yayımlanmış hikayeleri bulunmaktadır. Eserleri on dört dile çevrilen Scalzi, üç kere En İyi Roman Hugo Ödülü’ne aday gösterilmiştir.[1] 21 Mayıs 2012 tarihinden beri Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America'nın başkanlığını yürütmektedir.[2]
John Scalzi
Born May 10, 1969 (age 44)
Fairfield, California, United States
Occupation Writer
Period 1991–present
Genres Science fiction, Criticism, Humor
Subjects Finance, Astronomy, Writing
Influences[show]
www.scalzi.com
John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American science fiction author and online writer, and president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Old Man's War series, three novels of which have been nominated for the Hugo Award, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written daily on a number of topics since 1998. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fanwriter in 2008 based predominantly on that blog, which he has also used for several prominent charity drives. He has written non-fiction books and columns on diverse topics such as finance, video games, films, astronomy, and writing, and served as a creative consultant for the TV series Stargate Universe.
He lives in Ohio with his wife, daughter, and a varying number of pets, one of whom got significant media attention from the time Scalzi taped bacon to it in September 2006.[1] (As a result of that attention, Scalzi now maintains a web repository for links to All Things Bacon on the Whatever site.)[2]
Contents
1 Biography
2 Career
2.1 Fiction
2.2 Non-fiction
2.3 Online and other writing
3 Bibliography
3.1 Series fiction
3.1.1 Old Man's War universe
3.1.2 The Android's Dream universe
3.2 Stand-alone fiction
3.2.1 Stand-alone novels
3.2.2 Stand-alone novellas and novelettes
3.2.3 Stand-alone short fiction
3.3 Non-fiction books
3.4 Editor
4 Awards
5 Nomenclature
6 References
7 External links
Biography
Scalzi was born in California and spent his childhood there, primarily in the Los Angeles suburbs of Covina, Glendora and Claremont. Scalzi went to high school with noted blogger Josh Marshall; both were members of the class of 1987. After attending The Webb Schools of California, Scalzi attended The University of Chicago, where he was a classmate of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn. Scalzi's thesis advisor, for a brief time, was Saul Bellow. Scalzi abandoned his course of study with Bellow when he became Student Ombudsman for the University. During his 1989–1990 school year Scalzi was also the editor-in-chief of The Chicago Maroon.After graduating in 1991, Scalzi took a job as the film critic for the Fresno Bee newspaper, eventually also becoming a humor columnist. In 1996 he was hired as the in-house writer and editor at America Online and moved to Sterling, Virginia, with his wife, Kristine Ann Blauser, whom he had married in 1995. He was laid off in 1998, and since then he has been a full-time freelance writer and author. In 2001 Scalzi, his wife, and their daughter, Athena Marie, who was born in 1998, moved to Bradford, Ohio, to be closer to family. Scalzi is distantly related to John Wilkes Booth.[3]Scalzi was elected president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2010.[4] He was the only nominee on the ballot. He had previously run as a write-in candidate in 2007, challenging the sole ballot nominee that year, but was not successful.[5][6] He decided not to run again, so his term ends in 2013.
Career
Fiction
Scalzi's first published novel was Old Man's War, in which 75-year-old citizens of Earth are recruited to join the defense forces of human colonies in space. Scalzi noted the book's similarities to Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers by thanking Heinlein in the acknowledgments of the book.[7] Old Man's War came to publication after debuting online: Scalzi serialized the book on his web site in December 2002, which resulted in an offer for the book by Tor Books Senior Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden. The hardcover edition of the book was published in January 2005. Old Man's War was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in March 2006.Scalzi's second published novel was Agent to the Stars. This novel was actually written prior to Old Man's War (it was written in 1997), and was placed online in 1999 as a "shareware novel" by Scalzi, who encouraged readers to send him a dollar if they liked the story (he re-released the book as "freeware" in 2004).[8] The novel became available as a signed, limited-edition hardcover from Subterranean Press in July 2005, and featured cover art from popular Penny Arcade artist Mike Krahulik; Tor Books published it in paperback for the first time in October 2008.In 2006, The Ghost Brigades, the sequel to Old Man's War, and The Android's Dream were released.[7] "The Android's Dream" did not sell as well as his Old Man's War series, but is noted as the only novel, in any genre, in which the entire first chapter is entirely composed of a single, long fart joke. In August 2006, Scalzi was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for best new science fiction writer of 2005.[9] In February 2007 a novelette set in the Old Man's War universe, called "The Sagan Diary", was published as a hardcover by Subterranean Press. Scalzi has commented that he originally wrote the book as free verse poetry, then converted it into prose format.[10] An audio reading of "The Sagan Diary" was offered through Scalzi's website in February 2007, featuring the voices of fellow science fiction authors Elizabeth Bear, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ellen Kushner, Karen Meisner, Cherie Priest and Helen Smith.[11] In November of the same year, Subterranean Press also made "The Sagan Diary" text freely available online. In April 2008 Audible Frontiers produced an audiobook of the novelette, read by Stephanie Wolfe. The third novel set in the same universe, The Last Colony, was released in April 2007. It was nominated for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel.[12][dead link] Zoe's Tale, the fourth Old Man's War novel, presenting a different view of the events covered in The Last Colony, was published in August 2008. Zoe's Tale was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in March 2009. Also in 2008, Audible.com released the audiobook anthology METAtropolis, edited by Scalzi and featuring short fiction in a shared world created by Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, and Karl Schroeder. METAtropolis was planned from the beginning to be released as an audio anthology prior to any print edition. The audiobook featured the voices of Battlestar Galactica actors Michael Hogan, Alessandro Juliani and Kandyse McClure and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form in 2009. A sequel audiobook, METAtropolis: Cascadia, edited by Jay Lake, came out in 2010. In 2009 Subterranean Press released a limited edition print run of METAtropolis, which was subsequently published by Tor in a standard hardcover edition, in 2010.On April 7, 2010, Scalzi announced the pending release of a reboot of H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy, authorized by the Piper estate, with the prospective title Fuzzy Nation.[13] This was sold to Tor books,[14] and was published May 10, 2011. Scalzi has not written many short stories, but "After the Coup," featured as the first short story published originally on Tor.com, was a finalist for the 2009 Locus Award for best short story.[15] Tor released it as an e-book in 2009.[16] On July 6, 2012, Tor announced [17] that the fifth Old Man's War novel, The Human Division, would be released episodically as several e-books from January 2013 through April 2013 and as a printed book in May 2013; the printed version will have exclusive content not found in the individual e-books. His 2012 book Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas has been nominated for the 2013 Hugo Award for best novel.[18]
Non-fiction
This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. (January 2013) Though best known for his fiction[citation needed], Scalzi has written several non-fiction books as well, including a trio for London publisher Rough Guides' reference line of books. The first of these was The Rough Guide to Money Online, released in late October 2000. This reference book featured tips on using online financial tools. According to Scalzi, it did less-than-expected business, possibly due to the collapse of the Internet bubble at about the same time the book was released. Scalzi's next non-fiction book was The Rough Guide to the Universe, an astronomy book designed for novice-to-intermediate stargazers, released in May 2003. Scalzi's third book for Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies, was released in October 2005. This book covered the history of science fiction and science fiction film, and listed a "canon" of 50 significant science fiction films. Scalzi is also the author of the "Book of the Dumb" series of books from Portable Press. These books chronicle people doing stupid things. The first book in the series was released in October 2003 with a second following a year later. In November 2005, Scalzi announced that entries from the run of the Whatever, his blog, would be compiled into a book from Subterranean Press. The book, You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing; was released by Subterranean Press in February 2007. A second collection of entries from Whatever, entitled Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever 1998 - 2008 was released in September 2008. It subsequently won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2009.
Online and other writing
John Scalzi has been known to amuse himself by altering photos of his own likeness, and uploading them to Wikipedia. (uploaded by John Scalzi)
Scalzi registered the domain name Scalzi.com in 1998 and in that year also began writing the "Whatever," a more-or-less daily blog.[19] The name suggests the wide range of topics Scalzi writes about there, although many of Scalzi's more memorable postings center on the topics of politics and writing. While Scalzi maintains he started Whatever to keep in practice for "pro" writing, a number of writings originally posted there have gone on to be published in traditional media, including his "I Hate Your Politics" and "Being Poor" entries, the latter of which was published in the op-ed pages of the Chicago Tribune in September 2005. Scalzi also used the Whatever as a way to solicit fiction and non-fiction submissions on the theme of Science Fiction Clichés in 2005 for issue #4 of Subterranean Magazine, which he guest edited (published in 2006 by Subterranean Press). The original solicitation was posted in March 2005 with the unique requirements that submissions would only be accepted electronically in plain text, and ONLY during the period between 10/1/05 and 11/1/05 instead of before a traditional deadline. After the print run sold out, the issue was made available online as a free download.[20] Scalzi's own short story, How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story, was not printed in the magazine itself but only in a separated chapbook reserved to the people who bought the hardcover limited edition. In April 2008 Scalzi released the story as a "shareware short story" on his website.[21] On March 29, 2007, it was announced that Scalzi had again been nominated for a Hugo Award, this time in the category "Best Fan Writer", for his online writing about the science fiction field.[22] He was the first Campbell Award winner to receive a nomination in this category. In 2008, he was again nominated for the Best Fan Writer Hugo, this time winning the award, becoming the first person to be nominated for that category and the Best Novel Hugo award at the same time since 1970. Scalzi also uses the Whatever to help raise money for organizations and causes he supports. Notably, in June 2007 he raised over $5000 in 6 days for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State after fellow writer Joe Hill challenged him[23] to go visit the Creation Museum that had just opened near Cincinnati, not far from Scalzi's Ohio home, if Hill paid for the ticket, offering to match the cost with a donation to the charity of Scalzi's choice after he filed a comprehensive report on the trip online. Scalzi extended the deal to all Whatever readers, raised 256 times the admission price, and posted his critical report on the Creation Museum on November 12, 2007. In September 2010 he joined with Subterranean Press and authors Wil Wheaton, Patrick Rothfuss, Catherynne M. Valente, Rachel Swirsky and others to create a chapbook story collection called Clash of the Geeks, offered online in exchange for donations to the Michigan/Indiana affiliate of the Lupus Alliance of America. Some of the stories were selected from a competition run on Whatever to write a story to explain a painting Scalzi had commissioned from Jeff Zugale, that featured Scalzi as an orc and Wheaton riding a unicorn pegasus kitten.[24] In 2013, Scalzi attracted media attention by pledging to donate $5 to various charities every time he was referred to in any way, including a derogatory nickname, by writer Theodore Beale; after others echoed this pledge, over $50,000 was raised in under a week.[25] In addition to his personal site, Scalzi was a professional blogger for America Online's AOL Journals and AIM Blogs service from August 2003 through December 2007. In this role he created participatory entries (most notably the Weekend Assignment and Monday Photo Shoot), answered questions about blogging from AOL members, and posted interesting links for readers. Readers of both Scalzi's personal site and his AOL Journal "By the Way" noted distinct differences in tone at each site. Scalzi has acknowledged this tonal difference, based on the different missions of each site. Scalzi also blogged professionally for AOL's Ficlets site beginning in March 2007, writing about literature and other related topics. On December 7, 2007, Scalzi announced that by mutual agreement, his contract with AOL would not be renewed at the end of the year, in part so that he would have more time to devote to writing books.[26] In 2008, Scalzi began writing a weekly column on science fiction/fantasy films for AMCTV.com, the Web site of cable television network AMC. For traditional media, Scalzi wrote a DVD review column and an opinion column for the Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine from 2000 through 2006, wrote an additional DVD review column for the Dayton Daily News through 2006, and writes for other magazines and newspapers on an occasional basis. He also works as a consultant for businesses, primarily in the online and financial fields. On January 14, 2009, Scalzi announced he would be a creative consultant on science-fiction television show Stargate Universe.[27] He was credited as such for 39 episodes. On April 1, 2011, Tor Books collaborated with Scalzi on an April Fool's prank, with Tor claiming "Tor Books is proud to announce the launch of John Scalzi’s new fantasy trilogy, The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, which kicks off with book one: The Dead City." This excerpt from an imaginary novel took on a life of its own, being nominated for, and winning, the 2011 Tor.com Readers’ Choice Awards for short fiction. It is also nominated for the 2012 Hugo awards in the Best Short Story category.[28] This was followed up on April 1, 2013 by an "announcement" about a musical production based on the series.[29] In December 2012, Scalzi announced his first video game project, Morning Star. Under development by Industrial Toys, Morning Star is targeted directly at the mobile device game-playing market (tablets), instead of being adapted from a desktop or game console version.[30]
Bibliography
Series fiction
Old Man's War universe
Old Man's War (2005, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-0940-8)
The Ghost Brigades (February 2006, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-1502-5)
The Last Colony (April 2007, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-1697-8)
Zoe's Tale (August 2008, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-1698-6)
The Sagan Diary (February 2007, Subterranean Press, ISBN 978-1-59606-103-3; April 2008, Audible.com)
Questions for a Soldier (chapbook, Subterranean Press, December 2005, ISBN 1-59606-048-4)
After the Coup (eBook, Tor.com, July 2008, ASIN B003V4B4PM)
The Human Division serialized eBook from Tor Books, then published in May 2013 in Hardcover
The Android's Dream universe
The Android's Dream (October 2006, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-0941-6)
"Judge Sn Goes Golfing" (chapbook, Subterranean Press, December 2009)
The High Castle (forthcoming)
Stand-alone fiction
Stand-alone novels
Agent to the Stars (1997 online; August 2005 Subterranean Press, ISBN 1-59606-020-4. October 2008, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-1771-0)
Fuzzy Nation (May 2011 Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-2854-2)
Redshirts (June 2012 Tor Books, ISBN 0-76531-699-4)[31]
Stand-alone novellas and novelettes
The God Engines (December 2009, Subterranean Press, ISBN 978-1-59606-299-3)
Stand-alone short fiction
"Alien Animal Encounters" (Strange Horizons (online), 15 October 2001)
"New Directives for Employee - Manxtse Relations" (published in Chapbook titled "Sketches of Daily Life: Two Missives From Possible Futures" by Subterranean Press, 2005. Chapbook also reprinted "Alien Animal Encounters")
"Missives from Possible Futures #1: Alternate History Search Results" (Subterranean Magazine, online edition, February 2007)
"How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story" (chapbook, Subterranean Press, 2007; available as shareware from scalzi.com as of April, 2008)
"Pluto Tells All" (Subterranean Magazine, online edition), May 2007
"Utere nihil non extra quiritationem suis" (METAtropolis, Audible.com, 2008, Subterranean Press 2009, Tor Books 2010)[32]
"Denise Jones, Super Booker" (Subterranean Magazine, online edition), September 2008)
"The Tale of the Wicked" (The New Space Opera 2 anthology, June 2009)
"The President's Brain is Missing" (Tor.com, July 2010)
"An Election" (Subterranean Magazine presented story on Scalzi's blog, online edition), November 2010
"The Other Large Thing" (Short story first published on Tweetdeck's "Deck.Ly" reprinted on Scalzi's blog), August 2011
Non-fiction books
The Rough Guide to Money Online (October 2000, Rough Guide Books)
The Rough Guide to the Universe (May 2003, Rough Guide Books, ISBN 1-85828-939-4)
The Book of the Dumb (November 2003, Portable Press, ISBN 1-59223-149-7)
The Book of the Dumb 2 (November 2004, Portable Press, ISBN 1-59223-269-8)
The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies (October 2005, Rough Guide Books, ISBN 1-84353-520-3)
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing (2007, Subterranean Press, ISBN 1-59606-063-8)
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: Selected Writing, 1998–2008 (Subterranean Press, 2008, ISBN 1-59606-211-8).[33]
Meslek Roman ve hikaye yazarı, film eleştirmeni
Tür Bilim kurgu
İlk eseri Old Man’s War (roman)
John Michael Scalzi II (d. 10 Mayıs 1969), Amerikalı roman ve hikaye yazarı. Yedi adet basılmış romanı ve çeşitli dergilerde ve antolojilerde yayımlanmış hikayeleri bulunmaktadır. Eserleri on dört dile çevrilen Scalzi, üç kere En İyi Roman Hugo Ödülü’ne aday gösterilmiştir.[1] 21 Mayıs 2012 tarihinden beri Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America'nın başkanlığını yürütmektedir.[2]
John Scalzi
Born May 10, 1969 (age 44)
Fairfield, California, United States
Occupation Writer
Period 1991–present
Genres Science fiction, Criticism, Humor
Subjects Finance, Astronomy, Writing
Influences[show]
www.scalzi.com
John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American science fiction author and online writer, and president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Old Man's War series, three novels of which have been nominated for the Hugo Award, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written daily on a number of topics since 1998. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fanwriter in 2008 based predominantly on that blog, which he has also used for several prominent charity drives. He has written non-fiction books and columns on diverse topics such as finance, video games, films, astronomy, and writing, and served as a creative consultant for the TV series Stargate Universe.
He lives in Ohio with his wife, daughter, and a varying number of pets, one of whom got significant media attention from the time Scalzi taped bacon to it in September 2006.[1] (As a result of that attention, Scalzi now maintains a web repository for links to All Things Bacon on the Whatever site.)[2]
Contents
1 Biography
2 Career
2.1 Fiction
2.2 Non-fiction
2.3 Online and other writing
3 Bibliography
3.1 Series fiction
3.1.1 Old Man's War universe
3.1.2 The Android's Dream universe
3.2 Stand-alone fiction
3.2.1 Stand-alone novels
3.2.2 Stand-alone novellas and novelettes
3.2.3 Stand-alone short fiction
3.3 Non-fiction books
3.4 Editor
4 Awards
5 Nomenclature
6 References
7 External links
Biography
Scalzi was born in California and spent his childhood there, primarily in the Los Angeles suburbs of Covina, Glendora and Claremont. Scalzi went to high school with noted blogger Josh Marshall; both were members of the class of 1987. After attending The Webb Schools of California, Scalzi attended The University of Chicago, where he was a classmate of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn. Scalzi's thesis advisor, for a brief time, was Saul Bellow. Scalzi abandoned his course of study with Bellow when he became Student Ombudsman for the University. During his 1989–1990 school year Scalzi was also the editor-in-chief of The Chicago Maroon.After graduating in 1991, Scalzi took a job as the film critic for the Fresno Bee newspaper, eventually also becoming a humor columnist. In 1996 he was hired as the in-house writer and editor at America Online and moved to Sterling, Virginia, with his wife, Kristine Ann Blauser, whom he had married in 1995. He was laid off in 1998, and since then he has been a full-time freelance writer and author. In 2001 Scalzi, his wife, and their daughter, Athena Marie, who was born in 1998, moved to Bradford, Ohio, to be closer to family. Scalzi is distantly related to John Wilkes Booth.[3]Scalzi was elected president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2010.[4] He was the only nominee on the ballot. He had previously run as a write-in candidate in 2007, challenging the sole ballot nominee that year, but was not successful.[5][6] He decided not to run again, so his term ends in 2013.
Career
Fiction
Scalzi's first published novel was Old Man's War, in which 75-year-old citizens of Earth are recruited to join the defense forces of human colonies in space. Scalzi noted the book's similarities to Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers by thanking Heinlein in the acknowledgments of the book.[7] Old Man's War came to publication after debuting online: Scalzi serialized the book on his web site in December 2002, which resulted in an offer for the book by Tor Books Senior Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden. The hardcover edition of the book was published in January 2005. Old Man's War was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in March 2006.Scalzi's second published novel was Agent to the Stars. This novel was actually written prior to Old Man's War (it was written in 1997), and was placed online in 1999 as a "shareware novel" by Scalzi, who encouraged readers to send him a dollar if they liked the story (he re-released the book as "freeware" in 2004).[8] The novel became available as a signed, limited-edition hardcover from Subterranean Press in July 2005, and featured cover art from popular Penny Arcade artist Mike Krahulik; Tor Books published it in paperback for the first time in October 2008.In 2006, The Ghost Brigades, the sequel to Old Man's War, and The Android's Dream were released.[7] "The Android's Dream" did not sell as well as his Old Man's War series, but is noted as the only novel, in any genre, in which the entire first chapter is entirely composed of a single, long fart joke. In August 2006, Scalzi was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for best new science fiction writer of 2005.[9] In February 2007 a novelette set in the Old Man's War universe, called "The Sagan Diary", was published as a hardcover by Subterranean Press. Scalzi has commented that he originally wrote the book as free verse poetry, then converted it into prose format.[10] An audio reading of "The Sagan Diary" was offered through Scalzi's website in February 2007, featuring the voices of fellow science fiction authors Elizabeth Bear, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ellen Kushner, Karen Meisner, Cherie Priest and Helen Smith.[11] In November of the same year, Subterranean Press also made "The Sagan Diary" text freely available online. In April 2008 Audible Frontiers produced an audiobook of the novelette, read by Stephanie Wolfe. The third novel set in the same universe, The Last Colony, was released in April 2007. It was nominated for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel.[12][dead link] Zoe's Tale, the fourth Old Man's War novel, presenting a different view of the events covered in The Last Colony, was published in August 2008. Zoe's Tale was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in March 2009. Also in 2008, Audible.com released the audiobook anthology METAtropolis, edited by Scalzi and featuring short fiction in a shared world created by Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, and Karl Schroeder. METAtropolis was planned from the beginning to be released as an audio anthology prior to any print edition. The audiobook featured the voices of Battlestar Galactica actors Michael Hogan, Alessandro Juliani and Kandyse McClure and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form in 2009. A sequel audiobook, METAtropolis: Cascadia, edited by Jay Lake, came out in 2010. In 2009 Subterranean Press released a limited edition print run of METAtropolis, which was subsequently published by Tor in a standard hardcover edition, in 2010.On April 7, 2010, Scalzi announced the pending release of a reboot of H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy, authorized by the Piper estate, with the prospective title Fuzzy Nation.[13] This was sold to Tor books,[14] and was published May 10, 2011. Scalzi has not written many short stories, but "After the Coup," featured as the first short story published originally on Tor.com, was a finalist for the 2009 Locus Award for best short story.[15] Tor released it as an e-book in 2009.[16] On July 6, 2012, Tor announced [17] that the fifth Old Man's War novel, The Human Division, would be released episodically as several e-books from January 2013 through April 2013 and as a printed book in May 2013; the printed version will have exclusive content not found in the individual e-books. His 2012 book Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas has been nominated for the 2013 Hugo Award for best novel.[18]
Non-fiction
This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. (January 2013) Though best known for his fiction[citation needed], Scalzi has written several non-fiction books as well, including a trio for London publisher Rough Guides' reference line of books. The first of these was The Rough Guide to Money Online, released in late October 2000. This reference book featured tips on using online financial tools. According to Scalzi, it did less-than-expected business, possibly due to the collapse of the Internet bubble at about the same time the book was released. Scalzi's next non-fiction book was The Rough Guide to the Universe, an astronomy book designed for novice-to-intermediate stargazers, released in May 2003. Scalzi's third book for Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies, was released in October 2005. This book covered the history of science fiction and science fiction film, and listed a "canon" of 50 significant science fiction films. Scalzi is also the author of the "Book of the Dumb" series of books from Portable Press. These books chronicle people doing stupid things. The first book in the series was released in October 2003 with a second following a year later. In November 2005, Scalzi announced that entries from the run of the Whatever, his blog, would be compiled into a book from Subterranean Press. The book, You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing; was released by Subterranean Press in February 2007. A second collection of entries from Whatever, entitled Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever 1998 - 2008 was released in September 2008. It subsequently won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2009.
Online and other writing
John Scalzi has been known to amuse himself by altering photos of his own likeness, and uploading them to Wikipedia. (uploaded by John Scalzi)
Scalzi registered the domain name Scalzi.com in 1998 and in that year also began writing the "Whatever," a more-or-less daily blog.[19] The name suggests the wide range of topics Scalzi writes about there, although many of Scalzi's more memorable postings center on the topics of politics and writing. While Scalzi maintains he started Whatever to keep in practice for "pro" writing, a number of writings originally posted there have gone on to be published in traditional media, including his "I Hate Your Politics" and "Being Poor" entries, the latter of which was published in the op-ed pages of the Chicago Tribune in September 2005. Scalzi also used the Whatever as a way to solicit fiction and non-fiction submissions on the theme of Science Fiction Clichés in 2005 for issue #4 of Subterranean Magazine, which he guest edited (published in 2006 by Subterranean Press). The original solicitation was posted in March 2005 with the unique requirements that submissions would only be accepted electronically in plain text, and ONLY during the period between 10/1/05 and 11/1/05 instead of before a traditional deadline. After the print run sold out, the issue was made available online as a free download.[20] Scalzi's own short story, How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story, was not printed in the magazine itself but only in a separated chapbook reserved to the people who bought the hardcover limited edition. In April 2008 Scalzi released the story as a "shareware short story" on his website.[21] On March 29, 2007, it was announced that Scalzi had again been nominated for a Hugo Award, this time in the category "Best Fan Writer", for his online writing about the science fiction field.[22] He was the first Campbell Award winner to receive a nomination in this category. In 2008, he was again nominated for the Best Fan Writer Hugo, this time winning the award, becoming the first person to be nominated for that category and the Best Novel Hugo award at the same time since 1970. Scalzi also uses the Whatever to help raise money for organizations and causes he supports. Notably, in June 2007 he raised over $5000 in 6 days for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State after fellow writer Joe Hill challenged him[23] to go visit the Creation Museum that had just opened near Cincinnati, not far from Scalzi's Ohio home, if Hill paid for the ticket, offering to match the cost with a donation to the charity of Scalzi's choice after he filed a comprehensive report on the trip online. Scalzi extended the deal to all Whatever readers, raised 256 times the admission price, and posted his critical report on the Creation Museum on November 12, 2007. In September 2010 he joined with Subterranean Press and authors Wil Wheaton, Patrick Rothfuss, Catherynne M. Valente, Rachel Swirsky and others to create a chapbook story collection called Clash of the Geeks, offered online in exchange for donations to the Michigan/Indiana affiliate of the Lupus Alliance of America. Some of the stories were selected from a competition run on Whatever to write a story to explain a painting Scalzi had commissioned from Jeff Zugale, that featured Scalzi as an orc and Wheaton riding a unicorn pegasus kitten.[24] In 2013, Scalzi attracted media attention by pledging to donate $5 to various charities every time he was referred to in any way, including a derogatory nickname, by writer Theodore Beale; after others echoed this pledge, over $50,000 was raised in under a week.[25] In addition to his personal site, Scalzi was a professional blogger for America Online's AOL Journals and AIM Blogs service from August 2003 through December 2007. In this role he created participatory entries (most notably the Weekend Assignment and Monday Photo Shoot), answered questions about blogging from AOL members, and posted interesting links for readers. Readers of both Scalzi's personal site and his AOL Journal "By the Way" noted distinct differences in tone at each site. Scalzi has acknowledged this tonal difference, based on the different missions of each site. Scalzi also blogged professionally for AOL's Ficlets site beginning in March 2007, writing about literature and other related topics. On December 7, 2007, Scalzi announced that by mutual agreement, his contract with AOL would not be renewed at the end of the year, in part so that he would have more time to devote to writing books.[26] In 2008, Scalzi began writing a weekly column on science fiction/fantasy films for AMCTV.com, the Web site of cable television network AMC. For traditional media, Scalzi wrote a DVD review column and an opinion column for the Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine from 2000 through 2006, wrote an additional DVD review column for the Dayton Daily News through 2006, and writes for other magazines and newspapers on an occasional basis. He also works as a consultant for businesses, primarily in the online and financial fields. On January 14, 2009, Scalzi announced he would be a creative consultant on science-fiction television show Stargate Universe.[27] He was credited as such for 39 episodes. On April 1, 2011, Tor Books collaborated with Scalzi on an April Fool's prank, with Tor claiming "Tor Books is proud to announce the launch of John Scalzi’s new fantasy trilogy, The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, which kicks off with book one: The Dead City." This excerpt from an imaginary novel took on a life of its own, being nominated for, and winning, the 2011 Tor.com Readers’ Choice Awards for short fiction. It is also nominated for the 2012 Hugo awards in the Best Short Story category.[28] This was followed up on April 1, 2013 by an "announcement" about a musical production based on the series.[29] In December 2012, Scalzi announced his first video game project, Morning Star. Under development by Industrial Toys, Morning Star is targeted directly at the mobile device game-playing market (tablets), instead of being adapted from a desktop or game console version.[30]
Bibliography
Series fiction
Old Man's War universe
Old Man's War (2005, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-0940-8)
The Ghost Brigades (February 2006, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-1502-5)
The Last Colony (April 2007, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-1697-8)
Zoe's Tale (August 2008, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-1698-6)
The Sagan Diary (February 2007, Subterranean Press, ISBN 978-1-59606-103-3; April 2008, Audible.com)
Questions for a Soldier (chapbook, Subterranean Press, December 2005, ISBN 1-59606-048-4)
After the Coup (eBook, Tor.com, July 2008, ASIN B003V4B4PM)
The Human Division serialized eBook from Tor Books, then published in May 2013 in Hardcover
The Android's Dream universe
The Android's Dream (October 2006, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-0941-6)
"Judge Sn Goes Golfing" (chapbook, Subterranean Press, December 2009)
The High Castle (forthcoming)
Stand-alone fiction
Stand-alone novels
Agent to the Stars (1997 online; August 2005 Subterranean Press, ISBN 1-59606-020-4. October 2008, Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-1771-0)
Fuzzy Nation (May 2011 Tor Books, ISBN 0-7653-2854-2)
Redshirts (June 2012 Tor Books, ISBN 0-76531-699-4)[31]
Stand-alone novellas and novelettes
The God Engines (December 2009, Subterranean Press, ISBN 978-1-59606-299-3)
Stand-alone short fiction
"Alien Animal Encounters" (Strange Horizons (online), 15 October 2001)
"New Directives for Employee - Manxtse Relations" (published in Chapbook titled "Sketches of Daily Life: Two Missives From Possible Futures" by Subterranean Press, 2005. Chapbook also reprinted "Alien Animal Encounters")
"Missives from Possible Futures #1: Alternate History Search Results" (Subterranean Magazine, online edition, February 2007)
"How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story" (chapbook, Subterranean Press, 2007; available as shareware from scalzi.com as of April, 2008)
"Pluto Tells All" (Subterranean Magazine, online edition), May 2007
"Utere nihil non extra quiritationem suis" (METAtropolis, Audible.com, 2008, Subterranean Press 2009, Tor Books 2010)[32]
"Denise Jones, Super Booker" (Subterranean Magazine, online edition), September 2008)
"The Tale of the Wicked" (The New Space Opera 2 anthology, June 2009)
"The President's Brain is Missing" (Tor.com, July 2010)
"An Election" (Subterranean Magazine presented story on Scalzi's blog, online edition), November 2010
"The Other Large Thing" (Short story first published on Tweetdeck's "Deck.Ly" reprinted on Scalzi's blog), August 2011
Non-fiction books
The Rough Guide to Money Online (October 2000, Rough Guide Books)
The Rough Guide to the Universe (May 2003, Rough Guide Books, ISBN 1-85828-939-4)
The Book of the Dumb (November 2003, Portable Press, ISBN 1-59223-149-7)
The Book of the Dumb 2 (November 2004, Portable Press, ISBN 1-59223-269-8)
The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies (October 2005, Rough Guide Books, ISBN 1-84353-520-3)
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing (2007, Subterranean Press, ISBN 1-59606-063-8)
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: Selected Writing, 1998–2008 (Subterranean Press, 2008, ISBN 1-59606-211-8).[33]
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